#functioning

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#day #deserve #economy #essential #every

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. ↗

— Barber Conable

#democracy #fathers #founding #founding fathers #functioning

Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed. ↗

— Dan Gilbert

#climate-messaging #cognitive-functioning #dan-gilbert #global-warming #change

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids? ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#children #education #expect #functioning #god

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#creative #functioning #i #next #part

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#between #capable #children #doing #even

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#almost #always #cowardice #functioning #imagination

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#act #already #decide #decided #decision

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#because #been #chance #discover #every

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#channels #community #connects #functioning #human